jessica weiss

Workplace Performance and Happiness Expert

TEDx Speaker

Leadership Coach

Jessica is the happiness expert that shares the exact tools we need to build powerful, high-performing teams with the essential skills for success in this rapidly changing world of work. With 15 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, Jessica knows that we must understand that happiness is the glue that connects performance and engagement together. She shares the key to achieving and unlocking that happiness across the best teams in the world and enables them to perform better because they want to, not because they feel like they have to.

TESTIMONIALS

  • “Jessica’s message really resonated, and more importantly gave our team the tools to walk away to start implementing change immediately.   She was a pleasure to work with and we can’t wait to work with her again.”

    — Michael S., The Mayo Clinic

  • “Several women have already stopped me to sing Jessica’s praises. What great strategies and takeaways from all of our divisions – the leaders, the VP’s and the front lines.  Jessica’s talk was inspiring, motivating, and most importantly USABLE!”

    — A. Mashaw Duraserv Corp.

  • “It was absolutely perfect. Jessica inspired, Jessica captured people’s attention and Jessica unlocked how people think about happiness at work.  Jessica gave everyone the strategies and techniques that can be applied at work, to our teams and in life!”

    — K. Chanler, Pfizer 

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Jessica believes that employee happiness is the secret ingredient for extraordinary success. She stands at the forefront of a new approach to workplace performance: the science-backed connection between team happiness and exceptional results. While some speakers focus solely on either workplace satisfaction or performance metrics or personal development, Jessica's research-driven methodology proves these elements are inseparable.

She is on a mission to help transform the way employees think about their work by giving them and their employers the framework, services and ideas they need to make meaningful change.

Everyone will learn practical skills on how to actually create lasting and sustainable happiness at work as well as the practical frameworks to implement those ideas that can be applied immediately.

  • In this engaging and entertaining presentation, learn from workplace culture and happiness expert Jessica Weiss, as she shares groundbreaking and actionable research that helps leaders from across the country build a deeper sense of resilience, psychological safety, and belonging with their teams. By helping them decode the heart of happiness, leaders will understand how to build and sustain happiness, and drive high performance not by force, but because their teams find themselves in happier, more inclusive environments.

    Attendees will learn:

    • How to drive engagement and connection regardless of whether teams are hybrid, remote or in-office

    • What the five critical steps are to building a culture of trust and resiliency

    • The toolkit that creates a culture of collaboration and creativity

    • Why a culture of happiness is the foundation for all high performing teams

    • The root of happiness and how to achieve more of it on a daily basis

  • Why is it so difficult to keep our best people? Why is it so difficult to attract the best talent and more importantly what do we do? It turns out after studying hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals, workplace culture expert Weiss has discovered that the solution no one is seeing to the problem that everyone recognizes they have - is happiness. And to understand that happiness is the basis for collaboration, for trust, for effective leadership and the ability to navigate uncertainty and change. What we can then understand is that by developing and focusing on happiness first, we are able to build incredible teams and not worry about the things that kept us up at night in previous years.

    Attendees will learn:

    • How to build better work relationships by creating the time to do so

    • Effectively communicate across departments and teams

    • Different strategies to build better individual and team cohesion

    • Increase connection by establishing stronger rapport and how to do it

    • Breakdown the us vs. them barrier rampant in many workplace

  • Following years of increased unpredictability and rapid change, people from all walks of life are experiencing fatigue, overwhelm, and demotivation. Reports of burnout are sky high and only getting worse. We are looking for a more effective way than merely surviving - we want to thrive and to flourish without the relentless grind. Happiness, as unassuming as it may be, is the answer.

    Attendees will learn:

    • The relationship between happiness and burnout, and what they can teach us

    • Three steps to stop burnout before it happens

    • Five tools to overcome disconnection, low morale and overwhelm

    • How happiness can mitigate exhaustion and improve wellbeing

    • The foundation of happiness, where it comes from and how to enhance it

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Jessica is a TEDx speaker and organizational leadership expert who uses her humor and "tell-it-like-it-is" style to teach companies across the country why work can and should be a source of happiness, and how to create spaces where people love to work.

She is an expert in leadership, culture and organizational development who understands what it really takes to unlock engagement. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from Columbia University.

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